"what's with this strength?"
Magnus was running through some ruins and suddenly an flying object landed on him but Magnus was able to dodge. As the thing landed the whole surface below shook up and big hole appeared from impact.
"hey boy, you are dissapointting me".
Several hours earlier,
Ivy took Magnus into an underground temple where an golden light was seen from about 1200 m away, Scattering the sacred aura around making the dead temple lively. Some priests received both of them and led the way. They didn't take them directly to the Durandel's chamber but to an spring, which they used to perform purification ritual before trail.
As soon as Magnus went into it, an sudden surge of power entered his body, astonished Magnus spoke,
"where is this energy coming from ?"
Orion responded,
"this is the spirit energy originated from spirit world , master"
Magnus was astounded by the feeling of pure power from spring. Spirit energy was one of the purest form of energies just like celestial energy. As instructed he jumped into it.
Purification ritual was first phase of trail in which the challenger become one with spirit energy and removing all other powers from the body, since Magnus doesn't have constitution of either hero or human,was facing quite difficulty due to clash between lifeforce and Spirit energy which put great stress on him.
His mental state was in huge mess due to powerful fluctuation of energy, the body of demigod was still in maturing phase, so it wasn't capable of holding multiple forms of energies and a voice was heared,
"don't force it , let it flow naturally".
As soon as he heard the noise, closing his eyes he went inside his conscious, where he finds two huge round massess, one was lifeforce core and other was spirit energy core colliding with each other. To calm his mental state, he began meditation as the more time passed the collisions became weak and both the balls began combining and turned into an gigantic sun emitting white light.
In next moments, Magnus finds himself back in spring even though his outer state doesn't show any change but his mental state reached another level by combinations of energy.
Despite feeling exhausted, Magnus felt more energized and his sense were improved several times.
Priest and Ivy who were witnessing the abnormality in spring shocked on Magnus jumping out of spring the next moment.
"you really took a lot of time in there"
"what?"
"its been half a day since you went into spring".
Due to him entering his conscious, his senses couldn't grasp outer situations.
"Was their time limit?"
Priest who was watching him shockingly spoke,
"you are the first challenger that took this much time usually it would have been over in 2-3 hours but you took much more, we almost thought you drowned".
It was time for the final part of trial that is to pull out the Durandel from the stone, it was embedded in. Ivy who took trail herself also thought of the final trail as joke but it wasn't about physical strength but mental strength, many gave up due to the immense mental pressure it puts on mind.
As soon as Magnus grabbed the hilt of Durandel, an blinding light devoured Magnus and he disappeared from the scene. The priest and Ivy who were left behind were shocked on sudden revelation.
Magnus found himself in some ruins, and an old man's voice spoke up,
"you took long than expected".
Sudden appearance of an oldman shocked Magnus and he questioned,
"Are you the one who will take the final trail"
"indeed young man",
"so what's the task?"
" well for now, it is survival".
As soon as oldman finished giving answer, he suddenly disappeared and next moment oldman appeared before Magnus and punched him in stomach. The impact was too strong that Magnus flew away from his initial position crashing into about five walls one after another.
Magnus coughed some blood from his mouth and stood up while grasping the situation but oldman doesn't gave him any time suddenly appearing again, he launched another punch but this time Magnus was able to stop it from hitting his stomach but the result of impact was same as before, he flew away.
Magnus who was confused by the sudden attack, decided on strategic retreat as he began running in opposite direction,
"what's with this strength?"
And oldman shouted while chasing him,
"hey boy, you are dissapointting me"
"With your current composure, heroes will take you out within seconds ".
Oldman dashed towards Magnus but this time he missed to hit him. Because Magnus estimated his trajectory while running and he crashed into wall. Taking the advantage of situation, Magnus punched oldman in his face but it was good for nothing, recovering from the situation oldman began showering punches on Magnus and He can be seen flying around ruins from one place into another.
Magnus who was treated like a punchbag, lost his cool and raged up like an buffalo, as oldman was about to give him another punch. Magnus performed hundred viper sword technique with his punch and the huge impact created an large hole in surface.
"now this is what I was talking about",
Seeing the joyous expression of oldman Confused Magnus,
"having power is one thing but utilising it is another, you have power but it is useless ".
A revelation struck Magnus like thunder , since his arrival in Arcadia, Magnus has stopped training his skills due to which his movements and skills become sloppy. Due to his overly advantageous body, he doesn't felt any need of training and now he was facing the consequences. Magnus felt utmost respect towards oldman and greeted him
"please teach me more, great elder"
Oldman with joyous expression, replied
"looks like you have learnt your lesson".
The elder was none other than the predecessor of Durandel known as Heroslayer.
An spirit of passion aroused in Magnus's heart. Seeing the burning spirit in Magnus eyes, oldman muttered,
"looks like I have to start from basics".